The one thing about the honours which has always peeved me is the fact that Brian Clough, the greatest manager in the history of English football, has still never been knighted for services to football.

Sure, Ferguson has 'won' more titles, but consider this - both Derby and (it pains me to even type it) Nottingham Forest are 'tiny' clubs in comparison to Manure yet Cloughie took both to league titles in the days when it wasn't possible to buy the championship with foreign imports - and he did it on a shoestring - and Forest won the European Cup twice too.